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The Spanish Hospital or Hospital Español Juan José Crottogini is a hospital in
Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
,
Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
. It is located on Avenida Garibaldi 1729, between the neighborhoods of El Reducto and
La Figurita La Figurita is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood or district) of Montevideo, Uruguay. It is home to the Hospital Español. Location It borders Reducto and Atahualpa to the west, Brazo Oriental to the north, Jacinto Vera to the east, La Comercial and Vil ...
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History

The institution arose on the initiative of the Spanish community with the name Hospital Asilo Español, which provided free assistance to those most in need. The sovereign assembly was held in 1886, and after several difficulties the Spanish Hospital was inaugurated in 1909. The Spanish Hospital began to suffer serious financial problems in 2000, and the directors withdrew from the institution in 2003. A commission of officials, retirees and neighbors took control of the center, and managed to turn it into a free public hospital under the tutelage of the
State Health Services Administration The State Health Services Administration (ASSE) ( es, Administración de los Servicios de Salud del Estado) is the state provider of health care in Uruguay. It has a network of services throughout the country. It was created in 1987 and modified ...
(ASSE), being reopened in 2007 with the name of the doctor and politician Juan José Crottogini. In 2020, after the coronavirus outbreak in Uruguay, the Spanish Hospital was the first COVID-19 center in the country. The infected patients were transferred to conditioned facilities.


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